You're wrong. Coaching himself proves why he needs grownup supervision. There is nothing gained by diving at the tape.
Intelligent people can do stupid things. And we could all need grownup supervision sometimes. -You are reducing this thing to something simplistic it simply isn’t…(IMO).
But it is simplistic. In a trillion years I would have never thought that diving at the finish would improve my finish. Thinking rationally, risking injury doing something that doesn't help is absurd.
For the record, Senior year, I took a fall the week of XC nationals on an easy run, tripping over a root, causing me to dislocate my shoulder, completely wiping out any chance of a good race. Thats on an easy run. Imagine doing something reckless?
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I agree; it's called a " foot race" the first foot to cross should win. You should only be allowed to take a dive when pretending to be knocked out like a boxer fixing a match.
It should be center of mass. But you can't measure that easily, so we have torso. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. I haven't seen a suggestion I thought was clearly better than the current system. I'm not opposed, but it would be a pretty big change to implement. The big problem being that the photo finish systems look from the side, and any trailing body part system risks being obscured and unreadable. Not to mention other systems leading to other strange finish techniques.
I wonder why baseball players don't dive at 1st base on a grounder. Actually, I know. They have been told it's slower than running through the bag...which we now know is false.
Or maybe athletes with multi-million dollar contract's avoid risking their livelihood on risky plays with low rewards.
But it is simplistic. In a trillion years I would have never thought that diving at the finish would improve my finish. Thinking rationally, risking injury doing something that doesn't help is absurd.
Diving at the finish is absolutely, 100% faster than running through the line.
It's so obvious that I get irritated at anyone who suggests it isn't.
It might be dangerous to yourself and others - but ultimately it is faster.
But it is simplistic. In a trillion years I would have never thought that diving at the finish would improve my finish. Thinking rationally, risking injury doing something that doesn't help is absurd.
Diving at the finish is absolutely, 100% faster than running through the line.
It's so obvious that I get irritated at anyone who suggests it isn't.
It might be dangerous to yourself and others - but ultimately it is faster.
Actually it isn't "100%" faster because the dive has to be executed perfectly. Dive too soon and you decelerate and go slower than if you just ran through the line. It really depends on the execution. Jakob's dip was perfect but most distance runners, being unused to diving, usually dive way too soon. Sprinters are much better at executing dipping at the line. They are the experts at photo finishes. And no, they never dive. If the above was true, sprinters would dive every time but it never happens.
But it is simplistic. In a trillion years I would have never thought that diving at the finish would improve my finish. Thinking rationally, risking injury doing something that doesn't help is absurd.
For the record, Senior year, I took a fall the week of XC nationals on an easy run, tripping over a root, causing me to dislocate my shoulder, completely wiping out any chance of a good race. Thats on an easy run. Imagine doing something reckless?
I’m not saying that you haven’t got a point. I’m just saying that Jakob is really complex, and that that’s what I like about him…
Diving at the finish is absolutely, 100% faster than running through the line.
It's so obvious that I get irritated at anyone who suggests it isn't.
It might be dangerous to yourself and others - but ultimately it is faster.
Sprinters are much better at executing dipping at the line. They are the experts at photo finishes. And no, they never dive. If the above was true, sprinters would dive every time but it never happens.
this is exactly the type of thing i find irritating.
it's not rocket science to learn to dive faster than a dip
as for you getting pedantic about me saying '100%'
that's like saying 'dipping isn't 100% faster than not dipping because a poorly executed dip is slower than running through'
diving is significantly faster than dipping.
i don't know why sprinters 'never' dive but it's not because of performance - it would improve performance
Sprinters are much better at executing dipping at the line. They are the experts at photo finishes. And no, they never dive. If the above was true, sprinters would dive every time but it never happens.
this is exactly the type of thing i find irritating.
it's not rocket science to learn to dive faster than a dip
as for you getting pedantic about me saying '100%'
that's like saying 'dipping isn't 100% faster than not dipping because a poorly executed dip is slower than running through'
diving is significantly faster than dipping.
i don't know why sprinters 'never' dive but it's not because of performance - it would improve performance
To put it in perspective; Jakob didn't so much dive as execute a belly-flop. It's easy to see why sprinters wouldn't do that.
